Re: NTSC Monitor Vs Apple IIgs' Monitor

[The Wizard of Oz <wizard@emeraldcity.gov>]

On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 21:39:47 +0000, Bryan Parkoff wrote:

> Hello,
> 
>     I am curious when you play HGR game and DHGR game on Apple //e using 
> NTSC monitor and Apple IIgs using analog RGB monitor.  Please state your 
> opinion which NTSC monitor or analog RGB monitor is better for you.  Please 
> have an explanation why you like NTSC monitor better than analog RGB monitor 
> for HGR game and DHGR game.  In other words, I think to say that analog RGB 
> monitor is better than NTSC monitor because colored dots look neat including 
> colored 80-column text than NTSC monitor.
>     The problem is that NTSC chip on Apple IIgs' motherboard may not emulate 
> true NTSC into RGB properly.  It is an example that deep red vertical line 
> is supposed to be in the farther left position, but it didn't when NTSC 
> monitor did it.  Are there more why NTSC chip is not emulated properly, but 
> it is not just deep red vertical line alone?
>     I am interested to hear your opinion with an explanation so it would 
> help me to understand better by comparing NTSC monitor and analog RGB 
> monitor.  I hooked Apple //e to digital TV which it is capable to handle 
> 80-column text and DHGR dots, but it is almost perfect while it does not 
> look good as RGB does.
> 
> Bryan Parkoff

	I've only done this once. I connected one of two colour NTSC monitors to
my GS. The colours bled a little. The pixels were not as well defined. Of
course I have a monochrome NTSC monitor which showed things very sharp
without the colour (other than green). Since I don't have //es any more I
relegated the colour NTSC monitors to act as substitute TVs on a VCR and
my Linux box.

				Later
				Mike